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gettingwarm on July 15, 2006 - 9:47am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The NYTimes are spreading more propaganda than it did during the run-up to the Iraq war.

More of a prescription for global warming than energy independence.

Coal will save us:
"The one with the biggest potential -- estimated to displace 29 percent of imported oil -- is making liquid fuels from coal, using the Fischer-Tropsch method."

We can pump more out of the North Slope and West TX than exists:
"A second is to take the carbon dioxide created in both that process and other processes and pump it into old oil fields to push more oil to the surface, a technique called enhanced oil recovery."

Same as #1:
"A third is to use biomass, including wood and crop wastes, as feedstock for factories that make a fuel gas consisting of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. That so-called synthesis gas is the same as that made from coal in the Fischer-Tropsch method and it can then be turned into a liquid."

"The fourth is production of oil from shale, a technique tried after the oil shock of 1979, but abandoned when prices fell."

Little about:
Conservation
Light Rail
Peak Oil
Higher CAFE standards
Global Warming
Etc.

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westexas on July 15, 2006 - 9:51am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Re:  North Slope

http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/story/7964034p-7857193c.html
North Slope oil output took triple hit in June
FACTORS: Lisburne issues, warmth, overall declines in old fields hurt monthly tally.

By KRISTEN NELSON
Petroleum News

Published: July 14, 2006
Last Modified: July 14, 2006 at 02:25 AM

Excerpt:

A triple-whammy of seasonally warmer weather, which reduces compressor efficiency, continued pipeline shutdowns at the Lisburne field and declining output from older fields resulted in a drop in North Slope oil production in June.

The June average was 792,592 barrels per day, 3.6 percent lower than in May and 8 percent lower than in June 2005, according to the state Department of Revenue.

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Leanan on July 15, 2006 - 9:54am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Speaking of global warming...

First Half of 2006 Is Warmest on Record

And it sure feels like it, this weekend...  :-P

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SocraticGadfly on July 15, 2006 - 11:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Totally agreed... ignores CO2 oilfield injection already ongoing, as though this will be a magic bullet that is suddenly newfound.

Second, it ignores the massive water use, earthen byproducts pollution, etc. of the F-T process.

Third, when an article like this starts talking about oil shale as a realistic part of the solution, you know it has no anchorage in reality.

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